books.google.com - An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential...https://books.google.com/books/about/Waste_and_Want.html?id=dmvUq1HFUPIC&q=patchwork&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWaste and Want